Vanderbilt baseball team will start season on West Coast

Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin's team begins the 2014 season at Long Beach State.

Vanderbilt will open its 2014 baseball season Feb. 14 at Long Beach State and host Stanford two weeks later before tackling one of the SEC's most difficult league schedules.

Coming off a season in which coach Tim Corbin's squad set a record for the most wins in SEC play (26-3), the Commodores will open their SEC slate against 2013 SEC Tournament champion LSU on March 14-16 at Hawkins Field.

Vanderbilt will travel to 2013 national runner-up Mississippi State the next weekend and make an April trip to Arkansas. The Commodores also play Texas A&M from the SEC West and close the regular season with Florida (May 9-11 in Gainesville) and South Carolina (May 15-17 in Nashville) in a pair of series that could decide the SEC East.

After three games at Long Beach State (Feb. 14-16), Vanderbilt gets 17 of its next 18 games at Hawkins Field, including a Feb. 28-March 2 series with Stanford. Vanderbilt will host 34 games in 2014.

"Our schedule is very challenging and will most certainly give us a realistic indicator of where we are prior to the start of the SEC season," Corbin said.